SCSEC01-BP02 Use cloud services to maintain security controls while scaling your supply chain environment

Using cloud security services enables organizations to implement consistent, automated security controls that scale seamlessly with dynamic supply chain environments. These services provide built-in capabilities for threat detection, data protection, identity management, and compliance monitoring across your entire supply chain environment.

By integrating cloud security services directly into your infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, you can make sure security controls are consistently applied from development through production while maintaining operational agility.

This approach reduces the operational burden on security teams while providing enhanced visibility and protection for supply chain workloads as they scale to meet changing business demands.

Desired outcome: Efficient provisioning of secure, compliance-aligned resources at scale using AWS native services.

Benefits of establishing this best practice: Streamlined governance and enhanced security through automated, consistent resource management.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium

Implementation guidance

• Use cloud management and governance services like AWS Control Tower, Service Catalog, and AWS Security Hub to provision secure, compliance-aligned resources at scale.

• AWS Control Tower can help set up a secure multi-account environment following best practices for separation of duties and least privilege access, while Service Catalog allows you to create and manage pre-approved, secure IT service catalogs for your supply chain workloads.

Implementation steps

1. Deploy AWS Control Tower to establish a secure multi-account environment with guardrails that enforce separation of duties and least privilege access across your supply chain infrastructure.

2. Create standardized, pre-approved templates in Service Catalog to enable self-service provisioning of secure supply chain workloads while maintaining governance controls.

3. Implement AWS Security Hub to gain centralized visibility into security findings, automate compliance checks, and continuously monitor security best practices across supply chain accounts.

4. Use AWS Artifact to access and distribute compliance reports, certifications, and attestations that demonstrate the security posture of your cloud-based supply chain to stakeholders and auditors.

5. Configure AWS Audit Manager to automatically collect and organize evidence for regulatory compliance, simplifying audit preparation and demonstrating adherence to industry standards.

6. Integrate these services with your CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code to make sure security controls scale automatically with your supply chain workloads and maintain consistency across environments.